Total copies of all Pokémon-related video games sold worldwide since 1996, as of 31 March 2015

What this is

Total copies of all Pokémon-related video games sold worldwide since 1996, as of 31 March 2015: about 275 million.

How it’s built

1. Read from The Pokémon Company’s Japanese corporate data page, as saved by the Internet Archive in September 2015: “cumulative sales of all Pokémon-related software: about 275 million worldwide”.

What we assumed

• The page’s “cumulative sales” label measures the same thing as the later “cumulative shipments” label.The company used both labels for the same 300 million figure in November 2017, which suggests one count was relabelled rather than redefined.

Sanity check

It is a rounded “about” figure from an archived page. It fits the later series, which reaches 300 million by November 2017.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

すべてのポケモン関連ソフトの累計販売数：全世界で約2億7,500万本

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